New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Downplays Sequester Cuts
Like a lot of Republicans, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie thinks predictions of doom because of federal spending cuts are overblown.
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Like a lot of Republicans, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie thinks predictions of doom because of federal spending cuts are overblown.
Background checks are required for those who buy guns, but the senators have proposed harsher restrictions on so-called straw purchases, which skirt the rules.
About $141.5 million of the funding will go towards repairing the PATH train line, with the remaining $54.2 million designated for the World Trade Center Transportation Hub.
However, Cuomo noted the cuts likely won't have an overall big impact on the way the state government operates.
The state budget recently proposed by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie would divide $675 million in charity care funds between New Jersey hospitals – roughly the same amount that was allocated during the current fiscal year.
Now that New Jersey State Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Edison) has bagged the backing of the state's largest public workers' union in her bid for governor, she has focused her campaign on taking down wildly popular incumbent Chris Christie.
The "sequester" is now the law of the land, with President Barack Obama having signed the order Friday night that triggered $85 billion in mandated budget cuts.
They just couldn't get anything done. A high-stakes meeting at the White House to avoid the next fiscal cliff at midnight ended with no deal, but instead another round of the blame game.
Airport control towers closing, teachers laid off, and meat going bad or uninspected. These are the claims, some exaggerated, from both sides about these automatic spending cuts starting Friday with the sequester.
"If you think there were long lines before, you're not going to be able to imagine what it's going to be when we have the furloughs," the Transportation Security Administration's Justin Bourque told WCBS 880 reporter Peter Haskell.
"I think from the standpoint of the immediate response of the things we were doing at Hurricane Sandy, people aren't gonna see any impacts," Craig Fugate said Friday.
President Barack Obama jumbled the two most successful science fiction franchises during a news conference to discuss automatic spending cuts.
There was more squabbling in Washington on Thursday as the nation prepared to go over the latest fiscal cliff -- $85 billion in budget cuts.
A new survey conducted by Public Policy Polling found that Democrats favor bagels and croissants, while Republicans like doughnuts.
On the minds of most big city mayors around the country today is the impact of federal budget cuts if there's no agreement between Congress and President Barack Obama to avert the sequester.
